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You can search for a marine species or other entities that have been tagged in the message content by using the search box on the right hand side of the page.

Browse the WoRMS taxonomy


You can also find a marine species by browsing through the WoRMS taxonomy on the right hand side.

The taxonomy here displays all parent and child nodes of the taxonomy that are tagged as accepted or synonymised. Only species tagged as marine are shown (so you may find some parent nodes with no species within them).

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Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                  Alpheoidea
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                    Pandalidae
                      Bitias
                      Chlorotocus
                      Dichelopandalus
                      Heterocarpus
                      Pandalina
                      Pandalus
                          Pandalus borealis
                          Pandalus latirostris
                          Pandalus montagui
                          Pandalus propinqvus
                          Pandalus goniurus
                          Pandalus bonnieri
                          Pandalus brevirostris
                          Pandalus platyceros
                          Pandalus tridens
                          Pandalus stenolepis
                          Pandalus teraoi
                          Pandalus chani
                          Pandalus curvatus
                          Pandalus danae
                          Pandalus eous
                          Pandalus formosanus
                          Pandalus gracilis
                          Pandalus gurneyi
                          Pandalus hypsinotus
                          Pandalus ivanovi
                          Pandalus jordani
                          Pandalus nipponensis
                          Pandalus prensor
                      Plesionika
                      Stylopandalus
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                  Processoidea
                  Stylodactyloidea
                Palinura
                Stenopodidea
                Thalassinidea
          Peracarida
        Hoplocarida
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera